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The reborn anti-corruption related mass protests in Russia in early 2017 once again bring up questions about the political reaction to the previous oppositional awakening of 2011. The nature of the political regime in ...

In the article, the complexity and interconnection of the cultural characteristics
that impact higher education institutions in the Eastern Partnership countries are
presented. The six countries, united in 2009 by Brussels ...

The Financial Crisis of 2008 has been especially hard on European Southern countries which,
although some cautious signs of recovery, are still struggling to find theirway out of it and return
to previous levels of ...

This article deals with the problem of the social foundations of social solidarity in
the context of today’s European crisis. One of the main hypothesis is that the crisis
is not only a factor of disintegration but also ...

Republic of Belarus as an independent state appeared on the map of Europe only in 1991, after
the collapse of the Soviet Union. Currently, Belarus is a middle-size country on the borderland
between the European Union and ...

The purpose of this research is to trace the dynamics of the development of the inter-cultural education within the education policies across Europe. The brief summary of the IE development during previous four decades is ...

Since the ‘70s, the issue of creativity has been at the heart of the European debate. Many documents have been produced about creativity, most of which are analyzed in this paper. Creativity has been intended as a strategy ...

The article aims to analyse the project of a cosmopolitan Europe and to show the validity not of its rejection, but rather, of its betrayal. My argument is that Europe has both historical and normative character-istics of ...

Are Germans still pro-Europe? And, even more, may the current behaviour of German Government be called pro-Europe? This work deals with this interesting topic analyz-ing, on one hand, the European policy of German govern-ment, ...

In the course of time lobbying has structured itself within the
European political-institutional space slowly becoming an
element of the magnitude of European governance and an
integral part of the democratic and ...

The work of Carlo Curcio “Europe. History of an Idea” (published in 1958 by Vallecchi, publisher of Florence, in two volumes with a total of over a thousand pages) is certainly one of the most significant historical works ...

The debate on the totalitarian phenomenon was started by European scholars from diverse intellectual backgrounds who produced analysis and interpretive models in the 1930s and 1940s, often transforming their own personal ...

The paper analyzes the Weberian conception of modernity, capitalism, Europe and the West. Through the comparison with India, China and the Islamic civilization Weber studies the Eu-ropean identity, its uniqueness. Weber’s ...

The aim of this paper is twofold: in the first part, the authors outline the position of the European Institution towards the neet issue, and discuss limits and advantages
in the use of the NEET
concept and measurements ...

The soul of Europe has to be considered in unity. Without this idea
of unity, Europe (by definition) would not exist. But where does
this unity of Europe lie?
This unity might lie in the concept of civility, or in ...

By analyzing the case study of the 2013 edition of the “Festival of Europe” held in Florence, the essay ex-plores the limits and potential forms of participa-tion in European contexts as they occur on special “celebratory” ...

Is there a link between economic crisis and disaffection toward European citizenship? This paper raises this re-search question, investigating the behavior of Italian cit-izens as a particularly interesting case study. For ...